Just a short drive from the Portuguese university town of Coimbra, in Vale de Canas, a sea of eucalypts extends to the horizon in all directions. The tallest tree in Europe sprouted here 120 years ago ...

It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of ...

“A funny thing happened in Australia,” Frank Sinatra told a New York audience. “I made a mistake and got off the plane.” The plane in question – the private jet of one of Sinatra’s Las Vegas casino ...

The Scott Morrison who claims that deterring boat people from ever embarking on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean ...

Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing that people have got going for them is imagination. At times of ...

GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...

That’s the other problem with the patriotic component of the cause: as James Boyce pointed out in the February issue of this publication, because it so easily turns into jingoism and narrow-mindedness ...

In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family ...

I’m pretty sure I hadn’t written a major triad since high school.” In the composition fraternity of the mid ’80s, this was indeed a daring move. “There was a sort of warfare going on, and I was a ...

In a world where people are increasingly quick to judge, where difficult issues are reduced to binary judgements, poetry ...